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I was in my senior high school German III class when it happened. It didn't faze me back then but ultimately got me to seeing how united and civil America was after the incident with everyone looking past their differences, only for the country to quickly regress to its toxic political culture, which today has become terminally cancerous to the point where I seriously fear nuclear war at home or across the whole world, and I sure as fuck don't want to die as a result of my country's lunatic elected officials.
Both the government and media are well beyond corrupt, and just giving even the slightest attention to US politics (or so much as gazing at a newspaper headline) for me is akin to gazing into the fucking Ark of the Covenant. As a freelance video game journalist (and game journalism is every bit as a bad, biased, and corrupt as political journalism), I can definitely attest to the reality of bias by omission, journalists acting like they're entitled to their own facts in addition to opinions (and the media's "fact checkers" are themselves usually very subjective in what they deem to be "misinformation"), and selective reporting.
In the twenty-three years since then, the world hasn't become any fucking better or safer than it was back then than if we hadn't gone to war at all (we should have just focused on protecting America from terrorism both domestic and foreign and keep barriers between police and intelligence down instead of invading other countries as had been a long habit in my shithole country's history), probably even a fuck of a lot worse. Really ironic that the same dumbasses who bitched about the Second Iraq War are now perfectly content with pissing away money on that greedy-ass corrupt thug in charge of Ukraine (and the same said dumbasses had also bitched about the government "taking away our rights" to fight terrorism despite simultaneously trying to take away our gun rights).
As for Ukraine, I know people say they're fighting for "freedom and democracy," but democracies don't go under martial law, censor the media, ban opposition political parties, or suspend elections. I'm sure if the Ukrainians were to "win," they'd commit genocide against the Russians and Crimeans within their borders, and America would turn a blind eye and exercise its almighty United Nations veto right on any condemnation, as it probably would on itself were nuclear civil war to occur in my nation. A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine would be vastly preferable to blindly supporting one nation over the other, and I heard that several peace offers from Russia had been rejected.
As for Israel, I don't see what the hell is wrong with just fucking recognizing Palestinian statehood. Given that America wasn't exactly receptive towards its own states' independence movements as demonstrated by the War for Southern Independence (incorrectly called "the Civil War"), I can understand why we would blindly stand by Israeli supremacism in the region. Giving the Jews their own special country after the Second World War I think was a huge mistake in the first place since it would be akin to giving Christians, Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists their own "happy places." I think Israel at least should become a secular state like America and most nations across the world are, and even many Jews are anti-Zionist. Yes, Hamas' leaders need to be brought to justice, but so do the Israeli leaders committing genocide against the Palestinians, and apartheid also needs to be ended in Gaza (in addition to Palestine if it truly becomes independent) and a ceasefire implemented.
The Forever Wars need to fucking stop, plain and simple. I'm fucking sick and tired of war. We didn't win most of the wars since Vietnam, so what the fuck makes anyone think we'll "win" the ones currently going on? I'm sick of all this dumb illogical bullshit.
